Reddit - that I didn't think I needed to explain. It's from Frank Herbert's fictional universe for Dune, and those books were very popular with boomers several decades ago, and of course Dune got more attention again with the films. Plus it's been mentioned a lot again because of the current AI bubble.
From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(franchise)#The_Butlerian_Jihad
As explained in Dune, the Butlerian Jihad is a conflict taking place over 11,000 years in the future[7] (and over 10,000 years before the events of Dune), which results in the total destruction of virtually all forms of "computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots".[8] With the prohibition "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind," the creation of even the simplest thinking machines is outlawed and made taboo,[8] which has a profound influence on the socio-political and technological development of humanity in the Dune series.[9] Herbert refers to the Jihad several times in the novels, but does not give much detail on how he imagined the causes and nature of the conflict.[10] Critical analysis has often associated the term with Samuel Butler and his 1863 essay "Darwin among the Machines", which advocated the destruction of all advanced machines.[11]
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